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[Duncan Anderson]

On Friday, 12 May 2006 17:32, Mark W. wrote:
> James Gray wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 May 2006 01:05 am, Mark W. wrote:
> >>There is one Win32 applet I miss on Ubuntu: a good
> >>GUI "lister" - equivalent of Ghisler's lister.exe.
>
> ...
>
> > Open a terminal and type "less <filename>" maybe?  Why would you even
> > want a GUI for something you can achieve in about 5 lines of C++[1] on
> > the command line??  Sheesh - and you think *KDE* is bloatware!
>
> Why? Typically to quickly inspect the content of some
> configuration or source file when navigating around a
> complex file hierarchy (such as a source tree or somesuch)
> using Nautilus, and in context where I am primarily
> familiarizing myself with the subject - as opposed to
> actually working on it - which happens to be something
> I do a lot. And the slider makes it much quicker to
> browse through a large text or source file than to do the
> same via keyboard.
> M.W.

You can probably use something like "Xdialog --textbox <file> <height> 
<width>" 

cheers
Duncan
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